by Garth Stein
Harper, 2008
My Rating: C+
Synopsis (from Amazon)
If you’ve ever wondered what your dog is thinking, Stein’s third novel offers an answer. Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off.
Denny meets and marries [...]
Last month I introduced you to Charlotte (Charlie) McNally. She’s the (fictious) investigative reporter for Channel 3 News in Boston. She was the star in the book, Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan. The author has written three more books.
All four of the books feature Charlie, and I’m glad they do. Charlie is a great character [...]
A high school English teacher introduced my mom to the books of Emilie Loring. Emilie Loring (and that teacher) started my mom on a life of reading. Mom didn’t keep a list of which books she read, but she believes she read about “a hundred” of them. Her librarian would always let her know when [...]
by Nora Roberts
Berkley Books, 2009
My Rating: B+
Several decades ago I picked up a Nora Roberts romance book and kept on reading every time she wrote a new one. Then she started trying out new twist to her stories. When she started with the paranormal stuff, I stopped reading her. Now she has a new series [...]
Getting recommendations for good places to eat is something all good foodies love to do. Jane and Michael Stern have been recommending such places for over thirty years. They have written numerous books on the subject, have a weekly spot on American Public Radio’s Splendid Table, a column in Gourmet Magazine, and an excellent website. [...]
Written and illustrated by Hannah Berry
Macmillan Publishing, 2009
My Rating: A
Britten and Brulightly is a mystery set in rainy London. The title refers to a partnership of two private investigators. Britten prefers the term “researcher.” Brulightly is the partner who is never seen by the reader although we do hear him talking. Britten is the one [...]
The Sittaford Mystery was published in the United States as The Murder at Hazelmoor. As I got into this book I realized that the two titles are very true of this story. There is both a murder to be solved at Hazelmoor and a mystery begging to be solved at Sittaford. Let me explain.
Sittaford House was [...]